You met pilots? There is a reason we don't let them run the show. Particle physics? Yes, the field that gave us the biggest existential threat to humanity that we had to restructure our whole planet around to try to avoid—at great harm to us (UNSC). Solid foundations are no cure.
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The difference between commercial aviation and public health isn't that we understand aerodynamics better than germ theory of disease, but the broader political context in which the "experts" operate, which is not because of the particulars of science or tech, but policy.
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Germ theory of disease is one thing, but "public health" is a complicated amalgam of biology, psychology, economics and politics. I think we absolutely understand aerodynamics and aerospace engineering better than we understand most of that cocktail.
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Pilots add literally everything. The system could not exist without pilots; it could exist without every other component. (Except engineers, I suppose.)
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Pilots do not add more than doctors or public health experts etc., and the more constrained they are (short leash) the less essential they are in terms of expertise because they're operating in a low entropy environment compared to public health because *we made it so*.
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